• Online Community Roundtable: June 12 in SF

    As many of you know, I run a semi formal and somewhat-invitation-based networking group for online community pros with George Jaquette from Intuit. We try to get together bi-monthly, alternating between the south bay and SF. A little more information: The intention of the events is to provide an open and safe environment for community…

  • Online Community Unconference: Great attendee list and growing

    The Online Community Unconference is coming together. In hindsight, I think I was insane for trying to schedule this so close to the Business Forum… but who needs sleep. The attendee list is avaialable from the registration page: Update: reg list is no longer available, but you can access the conference wiki here: http://www.socialtext.net/ocu2007/ I…

  • Local Community and Radical Transparency

    I think a lot about the concept of community, and community member’s responsibilities back to the “commons”. I live in a small town in Marin called Fairfax. If you have ever driven or ridden from San Francisco out to the Pt Reyes, coast, you have probably passed through. Among the many things that make the…

  • Online Community ROI

    At the recent Online Community Business Forum, Joe Cothrel and I presented on Online Community ROI. Specifically, we proposed the notion that there was enough publicly available data and likely enough data internally that most companies could put together a model that describes the ROI of its’ Online Community Investments. Session 3: Online Community ROI…

  • Still catching my breath from the OCBF

    I plan on posting notes and aggregating all the participant blog posts on Monday. Haev a great weekend!

  • OC Business Forum Starts today in Sonoma

    We will be adding blog posts, flickr feeds and maybe even a tweet or two throughout the day.

  • Rock on Kevin: Digg sticks to its values

    Digg This: 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0 In response to community uproar over censoring stories about the hd-dvd crack: “But now, after seeing hundreds of stories and reading thousands of comments, you’ve made it clear. You’d rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company. We hear you, and effective immediately we won’t delete stories…

  • I’m quoted in Inc.

    I made this month’s Inc. Magazine, in the “Ask Inc.” section of the magazine. It’s a small quote, but I got a nice plug for the Online Community Report blog. The question to Inc. was about how to increase activity in a company’s online community. The part of my answer that was quoted (more or…

  • I find your lack of courtesy disturbing

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  • I know we are in a bubble again

    I have predicted that when people start talking on their mobiles while peeing again, we would be in another bubble. As of 3:30 pm yesterday, we are officially in another bubble. ps: I was not the guilty party. pss: what’s up with that people?